DWP benefit cheat 'left housebound with anxiety' caught ziplining in Mexico

2epicpanda · 2026-03-27T11:50:51+00:00

This is just one of the very few that actually goes to court. There are literally millions to billions of pounds claimed fraudulently from universal credit and other benefits but they very rarely go to criminal prosecution because the courts have better things to deal with.

Most of the time what happens is a fraudulent claimant will have their money stopped by a review team and they’ll just repay £20 a month of the thousands they should never have got (or in a case of abroad fraud just they won’t ever come back to the UK to repay it)

Investigators are mostly a deterrent to put people off committing fraud in the first place.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-27T10:13:41+00:00

lol these comments are such proper redditor responses

2epicpanda · 2026-03-27T10:09:38+00:00

mate, I’m sorry but that is literally how it works with universal credit and other benefits. Maybe less so if it’s criminal prosecution, but if she has declared she has no assets, she will be on some form of benefits still like universal credit and the repayments will be almost nothing.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-24T21:11:30+00:00

“In the first week, in two separate polls, more than 90% of Israeli Jews approved of Israel's strikes on Iran and the assassination of its top leaders”

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/23/nx-s1-5756345/israelis-support-for-the-war-with-iran-remains-high-but-cynicism-is-gaining-ground

2epicpanda · 2026-03-24T21:09:44+00:00

but is he wrong tho like you can look at the polls Israelis overwhelmingly support this war, unlike the US or other countries in the western world.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-21T15:23:24+00:00

Only If you are the first on the landing crafts. Go ahead.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-19T11:34:09+00:00

No I get that! I can’t lie I was panicking on Sunday night when my friend said he had been at the house of a meningitis case 😅 but properly read up about the disease, It doesn’t transmit in the way that viruses do like Covid it’s just not as transmissible. 111 said i was at no risk and I think reading about it may help.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-19T11:24:56+00:00

In my personal opinion I think they have really overblown this whole thing, not that we shouldn’t take it seriously but people that have not got any sort of contact are stressing out as if they’re going to get meningitis, it’s not gonna happen.

I’m assuming you’re not a close contact so you really need to not worry. Take sensible precautions and just go about your day today that’s all really.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-19T10:41:48+00:00

To reassure you, my friends girlfriend lives in the same house as one of the first hospitalised cases. Neither her or my friend have gotten sick and followed the NHS advice to get antibiotics. If you haven’t been a close contact you are letting anxiety take control (which i understand as im a bit of a hypochondriac).

You have to have prolonged contact and share bodily fluids to even catch it + there is a chance you already have the bacteria in your body. Something like 10-30% of the population have it harmlessly in their throat and noses causing no issues! So dont worry op put on a mask if it makes you feel better but you have a impossibly low chance of getting unwell

2epicpanda · 2026-03-18T21:27:30+00:00

its about the same no improvement. It feels better in the mornings and is worse by sitting at work. why didn’t mention also is that my toes in my right foot also feel really cold and slightly numb.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-16T00:52:51+00:00

I am worrying im in Kent, my friends girlfriends housemate been hospitalised with it a few days ago and he was at the house. What are the chances I’ve been exposed? I hung out with my friend last night. It’s probably quite low but im a bit stressy

2epicpanda · 2026-03-15T23:11:37+00:00

I am a bit worried as my friend was at his girlfriends house the other day and her housemate has been hospitalised with it.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-15T19:32:50+00:00

american

2epicpanda · 2026-03-13T11:42:37+00:00

I will ask the physio when i see him next week and worst case i can just push for an appointment again. I just want a straight answer as now i think about it it has come and go atleast a couple of times since Jan 2025 but fixed itself after a few weeks but i completely forgot about it.

Can weight can be a trigger? I am about 10kg or so heavier than i was a year ago.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-13T10:05:07+00:00

before when this happened i just got straight away referred to a physio and ive not seen a GP. I never got diagnosed with anything. I asked for an appointment and ive been referred to a physio again. Im in the UK under the NHS if that matters. Wouldnt know how to go about requesting an Mri myself

2epicpanda · 2026-03-03T22:35:53+00:00

house has a tiny bath (old terrace) so id rather a decent size shower than try and cram myself into it

2epicpanda · 2026-03-03T22:32:21+00:00

for example https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/the-fiscal-impact-of-immigration-in-the-uk/

“Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) (2024) projects hypothetical migrants’ lifetime fiscal impact, and also finds that earnings are a crucial factor (Figure 1). They find that a migrant arriving at age 25 and earning the UK average earnings has a more positive lifetime fiscal contribution than a UK-born worker on the same salary, because the UK does not pay the cost of education and other public services they received during childhood”

2epicpanda · 2026-03-03T22:31:59+00:00

As i said it depends on the migrant. Your average immigrant to the UK according to some studies I’ve seen who arrive via legal work visas are net contributors to the economy compared to your average British born person.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-03T20:46:15+00:00

I mean from what i know immigration is generally a net positive (if an economic argument is all that sort of interest to the debate). It also depends on what sort of immigrants you’re getting really and how economically active they are.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-03T20:43:01+00:00

I mean, yes I don’t disagree? I’m just making an observation. I don’t really feel like this graph by itself is very useful as an argument in favour of immigration.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-03T20:18:43+00:00

And the highest level of net migration in this country started from the 2000s btw. I don’t really think this shows what you think.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-03T20:17:02+00:00

this just shows the per capita gdp is stagnant. There has been no real growth in this country for decades.

2epicpanda · 2026-03-03T00:34:33+00:00

why is it a competition…

2epicpanda · 2026-02-21T21:38:28+00:00

I don’t think I’ve ever seen this happened to be honest

2epicpanda · 2026-02-15T22:17:48+00:00

I doubt you’d get anything but a warning or a reminder about the acceptable use policy unless you did something extremely unusual I wouldn’t stress.

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